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Thank you Merb people.

Thank you. As a Ruby on Rails programmer I couldn't agree more. Rails 3.0 will bring some maturity... programming to interfaces and APIs rather than implementations. I believe Javaland "got that" a long time ago.

Looks like a talent acquisition, not a complementary product takeover. Kind of like Etherpad. Developers that know the tech which Google is looking to implement in their own line of products.

The author writes on his homepage he is no longer maintaining it and hasn't been following the GIMP API changes. He is also looking for someone to take over:

http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/resynthesizer.

(I forgot where I read about the "since 2.4" part.)

Too bad this plugin isn't being maintained by the author. It only works with GIMP 2.4 from what I'm reading. This tool should be adopted as a first class GIMP tool.

Peak oil compounded by exponential population growth spell the end of cheap oil, in the least.

I quote: "first mobile development environment hosted entirely in a browser, lowering the barrier for web developers to jump into mobile development."

How do you like that, web devs? Now that's a smashing way to begin a relationship!

Excuse the superficial review, but it looks like JSON, not C. Why the name association with C, apart from the fact that you can include C libs? Vala or D look much closer to C.

Human herd behaviour at it's best.

Good question. I'd like to know too.

1) I had a comment censored after (politely) correcting the author on a technical fact in one of his posts.

2) Yes, the quality of this blog is definitely declining and taking on more of a gossipy tone.

But no, I would not ban TechCrunch. Sometimes they have interesting stuff. Instead I would focus on trying to find better methods for HN to attract and mold a better community. That's the real challenge.

Preach it brother!

Interesting points. It sounds like Michael and Issy have a lot going for them, and that they have a hard-to-find constellation of virtues, traits, and skills. It is that constellation that has brought about the atmosphere of trust, general goodness, and business success to the Four Seasons. It is the boss's aura that propagates to all levels of the organization, trust being but one matter.

The key to success is in people, starting with the person at the top of the pyramid. A bad boss cannot formulate success by inverting his personality or by adopting a daily "secrets to success" checklist to fervently abide by because he will fail eventually. That is a guarantee.

So if you want to be successful, you have to be good and hire good people. And if you can't hire good people it is probably because good people are hard to find (and probably expensive). That is why success is hard to achieve.

To push it one step further, an organization with lots of (or some) not-so-good people will not achieve trust, at least not to the fullest extent. A slacker causes other people to become embittered because they have to compensate. Slackers are not trusted. Gossipers are not trusted. Liars are not trusted. Greedy bosses are not trusted. Greedy bosses do not trust.

Sounds like another Cuil hype type campaign. When Google came out they didn't make any claims. Only factual performance counts.

Because then they would all have the same syntax.

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